... one starts to wonder if the country wouldn't be better off without them and if Republicans should be cut out of the health-care system entirely and simply provided with aspirin and hand sanitizer. Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.

The frakin idoitic morons have the majority in the House and Senate and can’t pass their beloved socialistic healthcare initiative. But yeah, please continue to blame the Repubs and make denial further en vogue among Libtards.

This dude just doesn’t get it does he? Even if we were all cut off, some of us would learn to become doctors and begin providing services to those denied. Come to think of it, this may not be a bad idea, having a separate health system for conservatives; I bet our insurance costs would plummet.

Will this apply to a doctor who is a Republican? Will he be allowed to treat himself, or would his personal Commissar beat him down if he tries to?

Could the government agency which determines if you have any nasty "Republican" tendencies which decides if you live or die be called a "Death Panel"?

Will Garrison Keillor be willing to personally use force up to and including killing any doctor or Republican who tries to have back alley chemotherapy?

What would the difference between people joining the Democrat Party to be able to get treatment and people joining the Communist Party to be able to get a job or an apartment in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union?

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posted on 09/30/2009 10:34:43 AM PDT
by KarlInOhio
("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)

I’d be all for giving republicans the option not to participate (pay into or receive benefits form) centralized healthcare, but of course, that’s not what he advocates, because like all marxists, the real goal is not really to provide for the people, but to steal from the collective individuals in order to promote the interests of the group... or in other words, spread the misery.

Conservatives and liberals can agree on the basics -- that the nation wallows in debt, that it is shortsighted of the states to cut back on the most essential work of government which is the education of the young, and that somehow we have got to become a more productive nation and less consumptive -- but the ruffles and flourishes of Washington seem ever more irrelevant to the crises we face.

Indoctrinating the youngest citizens--and doing a terrible job, too--is neither the "most essential work" nor the proper purpose of the Federal government. If it were, it would be in the Constitution.

Has this moron ever even read the Constitution, or does he perhaps believe that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is contained within its Preamble?

He’s an untalented bumpkin who recycles the same old 6 or 7 tired verbal-eye-rolling-snide-dry-humor “jokes” over and over again with an air of absolute religious self-absorption and self-pretension that induces instant vomiting in anyone with half a brain in their head.

And now he’s calling for death as a solution to our political disagreements.

Nothing, if it's a liberal. I didn't see anybody getting upset at Ginsburg when she admitted that she thought they were legalizing abortion so they could solve the problem of too many blacks being born in the cities.

Keillor’s off his meds again. Hey Garrison, go wind yourself up with some more hate, maybe another stroke might do you some good. Really calm you down.

Folks, Keillor is what’s referred to as “Minnesota Nice” - the Twin Cities version of it. The passive agressive snark in this region is making me forget about the civilizing influence of 12 years in Texas, and bringing back my native New Jersey influences.

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posted on 09/30/2009 10:41:06 AM PDT
by Fred Hayek
(From this point forward the Democratic Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)

Id be all for giving republicans the option not to participate (pay into or receive benefits form) centralized healthcare

An option that isn't possible, since any liabilities of the so-called "public option" will be considered liabilities of the Federal government at large, just like Social Security is a liability of the Federal government at large.

When the program inevitably fails, just as every one of its fellow Socialist endeavors conducted by the Federal government, those who never collected any benefits whatsoever will still be on the hook to clean up the mess.

Hey Keillor, Why not just take all of our assests and give them to the state and march all of us in to gas chambers at the re-education camps just like your ild did in NAZI Germany to the Jews, you fascist POS>

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posted on 09/30/2009 10:41:59 AM PDT
by stockpirate
("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)

I walked right past this joker one day in a grocery store parking lot I said Hi he totally blew me off. He just got out of the Mayo clinic after treatment for a mild stoke, perhaps too soon? Someone should check him out.

S - Ask the individual to SMILE. T - Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) R - Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS. If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 999/911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

New Sign of a Stroke ———— Stick out Your Tongue Ask the person to ‘stick’ out his tongue. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other , that is also an indication of a stroke.

He talks about education of the young making the country more productive, but all I hear are kids singing "Mmmm. Mmmm. Mmmmm. Barack. Hussein. Obama." (strange, only one year ago saying Hussein was the vilest of all things that could be said and now kids are singing it).

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posted on 09/30/2009 10:44:29 AM PDT
by KarlInOhio
("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)

Absolutely fine with me. As long as, if we are cut out, we also don’t have to pay for it. You’ll find that when you cut out the producers in society, society fails. But, alas, common sense usually eludes you guys.

“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money” - Margaret Thatcher

He talks about education of the young making the country more productive

Keillor and the rest of the leftists who think that education should be provided by the Federal government are complete and utter morons.

Federal involvement in education has only resulted in dramatically reduced quality of education, the devaluation of the high school and college diplomas, and immense price increases.

It's a pity that the Republicans were too cowardly and short-sighted to actually keep their promises and reduce the Department of Education to rubble. Instead of cutting off subsidies for leftist academia's continued indoctrination and brainwashing of American youth, they enlarged the bureaucracy and cemented it further by passing No Child Left Behind.

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